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Before the last race, the Tresor Attempto Racing team had established a sizable lead in the overall standings in the long-distance division of the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo. There is a lot of excitement in TCR Italy from Audi’s touring vehicle customers south of the Alps. Audi Sport customer racing’s interim results during the first weekend of August are completed by a number of further victories in global overall and class rankings.

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In the third round of the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Endurance, the Tresor Attempto Racing team’s Audi R8 LMS gave them a decisive lead in the standings ahead of the final. The squad, matched on points with a Ferrari driver team from AF Corse, went to Imola as the leaders in the standings. Together with their German teammate Fabio Rauer, the two Italians, Rocco Mazzola and Riccardo Cazzaniga, finished second in the Pro classification in the three-hour race on the Grand Prix circuit in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. This was sufficient to take sole command of the overall rankings.

The three drivers currently lead their nearest competitors by 19 points ahead of the last race in Mugello in mid-September. Ramez Azzam, Omar Jackson, and Axcil Jefferies placed third in the Pro-Am division, 96 thousandths of a second behind the runners-up, while the Antiguan Haas RT team also earned a class podium position for Audi at Imola. Brad Schumacher and Broc Feeney solidified their second-place position in the standings with two podium finishes in the fourth round of the GT World Challenge Australia sponsored by AWS in Sandown.

The driving pair placed third in the Kelso Electrical Team MPC Audi R8 LMS race. Starting in fourth place, Ryan Wood/Steve Brooks of the Wolfbrook Team MPC Audi R8 LMS finished one spot higher. They reduced the distance to the Ferrari winners to three tenths of a second during the hour-long race. In the end, Wood and Feeney battled fiercely for second place. Feeney/Schumacher went from sixth to second in the second race.

Despite Schumacher’s best efforts in the closing moments, Liam Talbot won the Aston Martin by a single second. The race was unable to proceed at a consistent pace due to a number of safety car phases, accidents, and changing weather. Broc Feeney and Brad Schumacher are now 31 points behind the leaders in the standings with two events left. Renee Gracie finished second on Saturday and first in the amateur division on Sunday, while Paul Stokell/Matt Stoupas of KFC Team MPC in an Audi won the Trophy classification in both races.

In the Audi R8 LMS, she increased her lead in this category to 74 points. Before the second race, fans witnessed a sad scene when Brendon Leitch drove a memorial lap in the Audi R8 LMS in memory of his colleague Tim Miles, who lost his life in a July 6 bicycle accident in Sydney. The two New Zealanders celebrated a race victory last year and had amassed 53 championship points for the Dayle ITM Team MPC in the first half of the season. In the fourth and last round of the GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS Sprint Cup, the Audi customer team Saintéloc Racing has reduced the distance to the Gold Cup leaders to two and a half points.

At their team’s home event at Magny-Cours, Paul Evrard and Gilles Magnus finished fourth and won both of the sprints, giving them 11.5 points more than the leaders in the standings, Ferrari’s Chris Lulham and Thierry Vermeulen. Evrard/Magnus won the Gold Cup classification in the second sprint on Sunday in their Audi R8 LMS with a 15.1-second advantage, making it the Frenchman and Belgian’s second victory of the season.

As in the first race the previous day, Leonardo Moncini/Sebastian Øgaard in a Tresor Attempto Racing Audi R8 LMS finished third. In the second Silver Cup race, Ivan Klymenko/Lorens Lecertua finished third in the Audi R8 LMS, giving Saintéloc Racing another podium result. The final sprint classification titles will be decided in Valencia at the end of September. On the fourth racing weekend of the Spezial Tourenwagen Trophy, Thomas Westarp won his first race of the year.

He won the second race during the ADAC Racing Weekend at Oschersleben while driving the Audi R8 LMS for the CCS Racing Team, eight tenths of a second ahead of Mercedes-AMG driver Kenneth Heyer. It gave Land-Motorsport great pleasure to win another trophy. In their Audi R8 LMS, Pierre Lemmerz and Alexander Kroker finished the first race in second place, behind Heyer. The FullinRace by Interaction team finished on the podium three times in Most during the fourth round of the Central European GT Cup Series.

In the opening sprint, Petr Fulín led his team’s Audi R8 LMS to victory in the GT3 class, and he finished third overall. The Czech driver finished second overall and won his class once more in the second sprint. He and Aliyyah Koloc alternated in the cockpit for the one-hour endurance race, and he placed third in the GT3 class. PB Racing and JMH had their best-ever weekend in the British GT Cup Championship.

Marcus Clutton and Peter Erceg drove the Audi R8 LMS to second position overall in all three races at the fourth event at Silverstone. In the fifth round of the Japanese Super Taikyu Series, Hitotsuyama Racing’s Audi R8 LMS produced its best finish of the season at Autopolis.

Sota Ogawa dominated the endurance race in the early going. The competition was marked by strong gusts, shifting weather patterns, and safety car phases. After five hours of competition, the driver combination of Anna Inotsume/Sota Ogawa/James Pull/Kenji Suzuki came in second, 8.3 seconds behind. After four hours of racing in the Stradale Motorsport Audi R8 LMS, Brad Liebenberg/Ryan Naicker finished third in the fourth round of the South African Endurance Series in Kyalami.